There’s some fucking physics twit from Harvard that apparently had government grant money to burn up and calculates that a Google search uses half the energy required boil the water to make a pot of tea. Except that to my knowledge nobody knows exactly how much energy Google uses thus making it a tad difficult to complete the equation.

Here’s a link to the yammering on the TimesOnline.

Here’s my problem with shit like this. My computer is on when I’m at home. Doing a google search on it doesn’t use significantly more energy than just burning cycles does. Same for google’s servers. Add that to the fact that a lot of my shopping these days is done online which means that I don’t have to drive down to the mall. Or to the library.  Or wander around town looking for a place that sells cotton candy.

Face it, we live in a technological society on a planet with 6.7 billion people. We’re going to generate some CO2. But not as much as if we were all huddled over fires in caves. Maybe once all the useless people who spend their lives calculating the CO2 footprint of google searches have died out because they have no useful skills CO2 levels will drop and there will be more room around the fire.

OMFG, could we please find something worthwhile to worry about?

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